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More than a year after the United Nations asked countries to take in refugees living in slavery in Libya, Canada has begun resettling hundreds of them, the UN and the federal government said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied a potentially incendiary allegation that his office told former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to help SNC-Lavalin avoid a criminal prosecution.

The NDP is asking Canada's elections watchdog to immediately launch an investigation after a series of ads claiming Leader Jagmeet Singh lives in a multi-million dollar mansion popped up online in the lead up to Burnaby South byelection later this month.

The Liberal government has decided to pull out all the stops on the construction of the navy's planned permanent supply ships — a move that’s raised questions about how quickly the Canadian Coast Guard will get a critical oceanographic science vessel.

FREDERICTON — Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers says he is retiring next month as Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, potentially setting himself up for a bid to become New Brunswick Liberal leader.

United States intelligence officials and politicians are escalating their fight against Chinese espionage in the wake of two wide-ranging indictments of Huawei Technologies Co. and they’re calling for American allies to join the battle.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals plan to spend an extra $114.7 million to help pay for temporary housing for asylum seekers — a sum Ontario’s government criticized as being hundreds of millions short of what is needed.

The federal government is giving Toronto $15 million to help address mounting demand on the city's shelter system as it faces the added pressures of refugee claimants. It's the latest injection of funding since Ottawa committed $11 million last summer.

The Liberal government is launching a new pilot program aimed at attracting and retaining skilled immigrants in Canada's rural and northern communities — places that are grappling with labour gaps due to a youth exodus and aging populations.

For weeks now, the Canadian government has argued it is simply following the rule of law in detaining Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the U.S. That position took a serious hit Tuesday, when Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum, said that

KAMLOOPS, B.C.; Indigenous people voiced their anger and frustration with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday at a chaotic town hall in Kamloops, B.C., loudly interrupting him to condemn the arrests of protesters at a pipeline blockade.

Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, says it's time for Ottawa to stop dragging its heels and repatriate its citizens who fought for ISIS and are now being held in Syria and Iraq.

According to a new article in the Globe and Mail by Gloria Galloway, the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau has managed to provide a net savings of $1.8 billion in the next four years, by reducing payouts to disabled veterans.

Would it surprise you to find out that the federal Liberals' 10-year, $187-billion infrastructure plan has been largely useless so far?"Really!?" you ask. Grotesque overspending by Ottawa has been mostly ineffective? Say it ain't so. But it is so.

A third Canadian has been taken into custody in China, according to Global Affairs Canada. A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Canadian officials found out about the detention on Tuesday by someone who knows the latest detainee.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is blaming pockets of resistance to the legalization of marijuana for a cannabis supply shortage that has slowed the dissemination of legal weed in parts of Canada.

Alberta's finance minister says Quebec's resistance to a pipeline carrying western Canadian oil across its territory shows the provincial premier's lack of understanding about the Alberta energy industry.

Nyala Lounge has had its business licence pulled again, 10 weeks after Edmonton city officials reversed the initial decision to shut down the local shisha bar. But the owner is questioning the fairness of the city's most recent action.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is being called out by a former cabinet minister in Stephen Harper’s government for factual inaccuracies in a public statement Scheer made Tuesday in which he called on the Liberals to reject a UN agreement on migration.

As over-the-top virtue-signalling statements by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau go, this latest one has it all. Early Sunday morning, the PM issued an odd social media post directed at Trevor Noah, the host of the mildly amusing The Daily Show.

The RCMP admitted that it made a mistake when it failed to inform Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's protective detail that would-be political assassin Jaspal Atwal was planning to join the prime minister during his official visit to India earlier this year,

The combined costs to process the aspiring refugees crossing illegally into Canada via Roxham Road and elsewhere over a three year period will exceed $1.1 billion next year, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.When it comes to Canada’s role on the world stage, the Trudeau government has been quietly siding with the world’s worst tyrants and human rights abusers.

Former Liberal MP Raj Grewal’s gambling activities at a casino across the river from Parliament Hill attracted the attention of law-enforcement authorities, including the federal agency that tracks large financial transactions, before he abruptly resigned

The Liberal government spent $500,000 on outside advisers to come up with a logo, name and branding for a new agency that promises to alleviate poverty in developing countries, internal documents reveal.

Even as the economic hurdles pile up, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists his pledge to balance the federal books in four years is "very" cast in stone. Trudeau's remarks follow several revelations that his new government is standing on significantly sh

There were voices claiming that the federal Liberals would add to the deficit when they announced the federal government would buy the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion.
Liberal spending plans will, indeed, keep Canada in the